Word: niles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Egypt's demand that Britain evacuate the Nile Valley was still pending in U.N.'s Security Council. But on the strength of early speeches, super-nationalist Egyptians thought that their chief support would come from Syria's El Khoury and Russia's Gromyko...
...Cairo, members of the devoutly anti-foreign Moslem Brotherhood heard a rumor that U.N.'s Security Council might reject Egypt's demand that British troops clear out of the Nile Valley. Five thousand Caireńes thereupon marched through the streets chanting: ". . . Egypt defies the Security Council! Egypt defies the whole world...
...have a document here written with blood .... Justice for our people!" Guards rushed him out; the startled Council resumed debate on the Egyptian case. But a few minutes later, when another galleryite, Ahmed Kamel Kotb, had to be ejected for shouting "Down with imperialism! Long live the Nile Valley! . . ." the Security Council decided to quit for the week...
...first crucial test of U.N. power in months took more definite shape-yesterday, as the 11 nations of the Security Council jockeyed for positions on the Anglo-Egyptian dispute over the presence of British troops on the Nile River. Two Egyptian demonstrators, who previously had disturbed the Council's sessions, were barred from further proceedings by Secretary-General Trygve...
Cadogan told the Council that unity of the Nile Valley, one of the cardinal notes in the Egyptian appeal, is a "myth." He contended that the Anglo-Egyptian 20-year pact which runs until 1956, is legally in force and that the Council should drop Egypt's charges...